{"quote": "You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The only real valuable thing is intuition.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Force always attracts men of low morality.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "God always takes the simplest way.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "God does not play dice.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The only source of knowledge is experience.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Love is a better teacher than duty.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "When the solution is simple, God is answering.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The environment is everything that isn't me.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The faster you go, the shorter you are.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Never lose a holy curiosity.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Imagination is more important than knowledge.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Information is not knowledge.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The man of science is a poor philosopher.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "It is only to the individual that a soul is given.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "I have just got a new theory of eternity.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.", "author": "Albert Einstein"}
{"quote": "Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "How can a president not be an actor?", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "It's not bragging if you can back it up.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "My toughest fight was with my first wife.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "Old age is just a record of one's whole life.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.", "author": "Dalai Lama"}
{"quote": "Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.", "author": "Dalai Lama"}
{"quote": "We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.", "author": "Dalai Lama"}
{"quote": "We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.", "author": "Dalai Lama"}
{"quote": "Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.", "author": "Dalai Lama"}
{"quote": "Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.", "author": "Dalai Lama"}
{"quote": "I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.", "author": "Dalai Lama"}
{"quote": "I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "I restore myself when I'm alone.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "I've never dropped anyone I believed in.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "It's all make believe, isn't it?", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "When written in Chinese, the word \"crisis\" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "What we think, we become.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "It is better to travel well than to arrive.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "The mind is everything. What you think you become.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.", "author": "Buddha"}
{"quote": "You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Whatever you are, be a good one.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "In most communities it is illegal to cry \"fire\" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "You can observe a lot by just watching.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "War settles nothing.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "If you come to a fork in the road, take it.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "In baseball, you don't know nothing.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "It ain't over till it's over.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "It ain't the heat, it's the humility.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "It gets late early out there.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "It's like deja-vu, all over again.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The future ain't what it used to be.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "We have deep depth.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "We made too many wrong mistakes.", "author": "Yogi Berra"}
{"quote": "Always do what you are afraid to do.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "America is another name for opportunity.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "As soon as there is life there is danger.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Beauty without expression is boring.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Children are all foreigners.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "We are wiser than we know.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "We must be our own before we can be another's.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "What you are comes to you.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "There is creative reading as well as creative writing.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "To be great is to be misunderstood.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "We acquire the strength we have overcome.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "We aim above the mark to hit the mark.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "We are always getting ready to live but never living.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The reward of a thing well done is having done it.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The years teach much which the days never know.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "There is a tendency for things to right themselves.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "There is always safety in valor.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Some books leave us free and some books make us free.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The ancestor of every action is a thought.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The faith that stands on authority is not faith.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "My mother was a politician in my formative years.", "author": "Antonia Fraser"}
{"quote": "The first wealth is health.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.", "author": "Antonia Fraser"}
{"quote": "Ninety-seven is my lucky number.", "author": "Antonia Fraser"}
{"quote": "Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.", "author": "Antonia Fraser"}
{"quote": "People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.", "author": "Antonia Fraser"}
{"quote": "That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.", "author": "Antonia Fraser"}
{"quote": "The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The highest revelation is that God is in every man.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.", "author": "Antonia Fraser"}
{"quote": "The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!", "author": "Antonia Fraser"}
{"quote": "We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.", "author": "Antonia Fraser"}
{"quote": "It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The only way to have a friend is to be one.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "No one wants advice - only corroboration.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "Time is the only critic without ambition.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "Our best thoughts come from others.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.", "author": "John Steinbeck"}
{"quote": "Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "People only see what they are prepared to see.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Pictures must not be too picturesque.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Power and speed be hands and feet.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Reality is a sliding door.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Revolutions go not backward.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Science does not know its debt to imagination.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Money often costs too much.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Nature hates calculators.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Nothing external to you has any power over you.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.", "author": "Anthony Weiner"}
{"quote": "Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.", "author": "Anthony Weiner"}
{"quote": "Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.", "author": "Anthony Weiner"}
{"quote": "The picture was of me, and I sent it.", "author": "Anthony Weiner"}
{"quote": "There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.", "author": "Anthony Weiner"}
{"quote": "There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district.", "author": "Anthony Weiner"}
{"quote": "We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.", "author": "Anthony Weiner"}
{"quote": "We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of.", "author": "Anthony Weiner"}
{"quote": "What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?", "author": "Anthony Weiner"}
{"quote": "The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "The sergeant is the Army.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Only Americans can hurt America.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "There is no victory at bargain basement prices.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Pessimism never won any battle.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Plans are nothing; planning is everything.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.", "author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"}
{"quote": "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, \"Truth is the daughter of Time.\"", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Knavery and flattery are blood relations.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Public opinion in this country is everything.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Some day I shall be President.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "God screens us evermore from premature ideas.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Good men must not obey the laws too well.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "The assertion that \"all men are created equal\" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "The ballot is stronger than the bullet.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Hitch your wagon to a star.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Everybody likes a compliment.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "God must love the common man, he made so many of them.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I can make more generals, but horses cost money.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I will prepare and some day my chance will come.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Every wall is a door.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln"}
{"quote": "Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Genius always finds itself a century too early.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "God enters by a private door into every individual.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Earth laughs in flowers.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Every artist was first an amateur.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Every burned book enlightens the world.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Every hero becomes a bore at last.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "It is not length of life, but depth of life.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Every man I meet is in some way my superior.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Make yourself necessary to somebody.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "Men are what their mothers made them.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"}
{"quote": "The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "The discontented man finds no easy chair.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "The doors of wisdom are never shut.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "When you're finished changing, you're finished.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Where liberty is, there is my country.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Never confuse motion with action.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "The first mistake in public business is the going into it.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Nine men in ten are would be suicides.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "No nation was ever ruined by trade.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Observe all men, thyself most.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Time is money.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "One today is worth two tomorrows.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Our necessities never equal our wants.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "There was never a good war, or a bad peace.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "You may delay, but time will not.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Remember that credit is money.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Well done is better than well said.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "If you desire many things, many things will seem few.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "He that lives upon hope will die fasting.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "He that rises late must trot all day.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "When in doubt, don't.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Lost time is never found again.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "He that speaks much, is much mistaken.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "He that won't be counseled can't be helped.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "He that's secure is not safe.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Mine is better than ours.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Necessity never made a good bargain.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Industry need not wish.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Honesty is the best policy.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Hunger is the best pickle.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Beauty and folly are old companions.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Beware the hobby that eats.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Creditors have better memories than debtors.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Diligence is the mother of good luck.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Distrust and caution are the parents of security.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Energy and persistence conquer all things.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Fatigue is the best pillow.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Games lubricate the body and the mind.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Genius without education is like silver in the mine.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "God helps those who help themselves.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Half a truth is often a great lie.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "He that can have patience can have what he will.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin"}
{"quote": "The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.", "author": "Nancy Pelosi"}
{"quote": "Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.", "author": "Nancy Pelosi"}
{"quote": "We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!", "author": "Nancy Pelosi"}
{"quote": "We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.", "author": "Nancy Pelosi"}
{"quote": "We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.", "author": "Nancy Pelosi"}
{"quote": "New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.", "author": "Nancy Pelosi"}
{"quote": "We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.", "author": "Nancy Pelosi"}
{"quote": "What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.", "author": "Nancy Pelosi"}
{"quote": "Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "The administration says, then, there are no downsides or upsides to treating terrorists like civilian criminal defendants, but a lot of us would beg to differ.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda, so some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle: that's where you've gotta look because that's what got you into this mess.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "We don't need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore America.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "We eat, therefore we hunt.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them.", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "The most important social welfare program in America is a job.", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "You can't trust anybody with power.", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.", "author": "Newt Gingrich"}
{"quote": "We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.", "author": "Sarah Palin"}
{"quote": "Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.", "author": "Ron Paul"}
{"quote": "Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.", "author": "Robert Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.", "author": "Alexander Hamilton"}
{"quote": "The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.", "author": "Alexander Hamilton"}
{"quote": "The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.", "author": "Alexander Hamilton"}
{"quote": "There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.", "author": "Alexander Hamilton"}
{"quote": "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.", "author": "Alexander Hamilton"}
{"quote": "There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.", "author": "Alexander Hamilton"}
{"quote": "Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.", "author": "Alexander Hamilton"}
{"quote": "You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.", "author": "Alexander Hamilton"}
{"quote": "We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn't mean that we're going to agree.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.", "author": "Hillary Clinton"}
{"quote": "Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, \"Thy will be done,\" and those to whom God says, \"All right, then, have it your way.\"", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "We are what we believe we are.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "I gave in, and admitted that God was God.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.", "author": "Jackie Collins"}
{"quote": "If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.", "author": "Jackie Collins"}
{"quote": "My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?", "author": "Jackie Collins"}
{"quote": "My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.", "author": "Jackie Collins"}
{"quote": "People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.", "author": "Jackie Collins"}
{"quote": "The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.", "author": "Jackie Collins"}
{"quote": "Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.", "author": "Jackie Collins"}
{"quote": "Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.", "author": "Jackie Collins"}
{"quote": "Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.", "author": "Jackie Collins"}
{"quote": "Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?", "author": "Jackie Collins"}
{"quote": "You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.", "author": "Jackie Collins"}
{"quote": "Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.", "author": "Neil Gaiman"}
{"quote": "Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.", "author": "C. S. Lewis"}
{"quote": "It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.", "author": "Neil Gaiman"}
{"quote": "Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.", "author": "Neil Gaiman"}
{"quote": "Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.", "author": "Neil Gaiman"}
{"quote": "Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.", "author": "Neil Gaiman"}
{"quote": "So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.", "author": "Neil Gaiman"}
{"quote": "So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.", "author": "Neil Gaiman"}
{"quote": "The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.", "author": "Neil Gaiman"}
{"quote": "The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.", "author": "Neil Gaiman"}
{"quote": "There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.", "author": "Neil Gaiman"}
{"quote": "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.", "author": "Neil Gaiman"}
{"quote": "This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.", "author": "Neil Gaiman"}
{"quote": "We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.", "author": "Neil Gaiman"}
{"quote": "The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.", "author": "Neil Gaiman"}
{"quote": "The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.", "author": "James Allen"}
{"quote": "Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "The best road to progress is freedom's road.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "The human mind is our fundamental resource.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "The pay is good and I can walk to work.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be a s big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "I'm an idealist without illusions.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.", "author": "John F. Kennedy"}
{"quote": "Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "You cannot find peace by avoiding life.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Serious sport is war minus the shooting.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Liberal: a power worshipper without power.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Four legs good, two legs bad.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Myths which are believed in tend to become true.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Good writing is like a windowpane.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Happiness can exist only in acceptance.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.", "author": "George Orwell"}
{"quote": "Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "There are many victories worse than a defeat.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "In every parting there is an image of death.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "You can stroke people with words.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "It is never too late to be what you might have been.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Consequences are unpitying.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Excessive literary production is a social offense.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.", "author": "George Eliot"}
{"quote": "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.", "author": "Joseph Campbell"}
{"quote": "We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.", "author": "Joseph Campbell"}
{"quote": "What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.", "author": "Joseph Campbell"}
{"quote": "When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.", "author": "Joseph Campbell"}
{"quote": "When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.", "author": "Joseph Campbell"}
{"quote": "When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.", "author": "Joseph Campbell"}
{"quote": "Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.", "author": "Joseph Campbell"}
{"quote": "Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.", "author": "Joseph Campbell"}
{"quote": "To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "Whatever happens, take responsibility.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "When people are like each other they tend to like each other.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "You always succeed in producing a result.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "Remember that failure is an event, not a person.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "The way you see people is the way you treat them.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "Passion is the genesis of genius.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.", "author": "Zig Ziglar"}
{"quote": "The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "The path to success is to take massive, determined action.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "There's always a way - if you're committed.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "There's no abiding success without commitment.", "author": "Tony Robbins"}
{"quote": "So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "The highest result of education is tolerance.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Knowledge is love and light and vision.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Life is either a great adventure or nothing.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "People living deeply have no fear of death.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.", "author": "Helen Keller"}
{"quote": "The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.", "author": "Anais Nin"}
{"quote": "The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "The victor belongs to the spoils.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "There are no second acts in American lives.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "No decent career was ever founded on a public.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.", "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"}
{"quote": "The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "That great Cathedral space which was childhood.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Language is wine upon the lips.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?", "author": "Virginia Woolf"}
{"quote": "Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "We are all alike, on the inside.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "We have the best government that money can buy.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "There are lies, damned lies and statistics.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "When in doubt tell the truth.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The lack of money is the root of all evil.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The Public is merely a multiplied \"me.\"", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial \"we.\"", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Prosperity is the best protector of principle.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Substitute \"damn\" every time you're inclined to write \"very\"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Necessity is the mother of taking chances.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "It is easier to stay out than get out.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "I can live for two months on a good compliment.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "I never let schooling interfere with my education.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "I've never let my school interfere with my education.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Golf is a good walk spoiled.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "He is now rising from affluence to poverty.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Better a broken promise than none at all.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Buy land, they're not making it anymore.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Being is the great explainer.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Don't let schooling interfere with your education.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.", "author": "Mark Twain"}
{"quote": "Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Dreams are the touchstones of our character.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "What is once well done is done forever.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "This world is but a canvas to our imagination.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Truths and roses have thorns about them.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The universe is wider than our views of it.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "There is no just and serene criticism as yet.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The heart is forever inexperienced.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "There is no remedy for love but to love more.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The language of friendship is not words but meanings.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Only that day dawns to which we are awake.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The perception of beauty is a moral test.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Men are born to succeed, not to fail.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Things do not change; we change.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The savage in man is never quite eradicated.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Simplify, simplify.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "That government is best which governs least.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Men have become the tools of their tools.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "The bluebird carries the sky on his back.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "It is never too late to give up our prejudices.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Live the life you've dreamed.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "If misery loves company, misery has company enough.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "In wilderness is the preservation of the world.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Faith never makes a confession.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Goodness is the only investment that never fails.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.", "author": "Judy Garland"}
{"quote": "How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau"}
{"quote": "Life is hard. After all, it kills you.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn"}
{"quote": "Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn"}
{"quote": "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn"}
{"quote": "Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn"}
{"quote": "My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn"}
{"quote": "Never complain. Never explain.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn"}
{"quote": "Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn"}
{"quote": "Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn"}
{"quote": "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn"}
{"quote": "The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn"}
{"quote": "To be loved is very demoralizing.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn"}
{"quote": "To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn"}
{"quote": "Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn"}
{"quote": "We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn"}
{"quote": "When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn"}
{"quote": "Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn"}
{"quote": "Without discipline, there's no life at all.", "author": "Katharine Hepburn"}
{"quote": "With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "I will never be below the title.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "I work to stay alive.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "I've always liked men better than women.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "I've lost my faith in science.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "What nourishes me also destroys me.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.", "author": "Angelina Jolie"}
{"quote": "There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.", "author": "Marilyn Monroe"}
{"quote": "People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.", "author": "Megan Fox"}
{"quote": "Well, I'm clearly not ugly.", "author": "Megan Fox"}
{"quote": "When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.", "author": "Megan Fox"}
{"quote": "When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM.", "author": "Megan Fox"}
{"quote": "When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.", "author": "Megan Fox"}
{"quote": "Zac Efron is my obsession, we're the same person. We're not actually here, it's like Janet and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it's me, and you don't know that. It's one of the greatest mysteries of all time.", "author": "Megan Fox"}
{"quote": "My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "Old age is no place for sissies.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "Sex is God's joke on human beings.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "Strong women only marry weak men.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "To look back is to relax one's vigil.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.", "author": "Bette Davis"}
{"quote": "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Women may fall when there's no strength in men.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Words without thoughts never to heaven go.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "To be, or not to be: that is the question.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "To do a great right do a little wrong.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "We know what we are, but know not what we may be.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "What is past is prologue.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The wheel is come full circle.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "There is no darkness but ignorance.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "What's done can't be undone.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "There's many a man has more hair than wit.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "There's place and means for every man alive.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "They do not love that do not show their love.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "They say miracles are past.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "This above all; to thine own self be true.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Time and the hour run through the roughest day.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The attempt and not the deed confounds us.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The course of true love never did run smooth.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The golden age is before us, not behind us.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The lady doth protest too much, methinks.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The love of heaven makes one heavenly.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "The valiant never taste of death but once.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "O, had I but followed the arts!", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Parting is such sweet sorrow.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Men shut their doors against a setting sun.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Men's vows are women's traitors!", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "So foul and fair a day I have not seen.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "My pride fell with my fortunes.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Speak low, if you speak love.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Such as we are made of, such we be.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Neither a borrower nor a lender be.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "No legacy is so rich as honesty.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Nothing can come of nothing.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Now is the winter of our discontent.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "It is a wise father that knows his own child.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Lawless are they that make their wills their law.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Let no such man be trusted.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Listen to many, speak to a few.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Love is too young to know what conscience is.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "I say there is no darkness but ignorance.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "I was adored once too.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "I will praise any man that will praise me.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "If music be the food of love, play on.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "In a false quarrel there is no true valor.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "In time we hate that which we often fear.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Having nothing, nothing can he lose.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Hell is empty and all the devils are here.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "How well he's read, to reason against reading!", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "I am not bound to please thee with my answer.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "I bear a charmed life.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "I dote on his very absence.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "By that sin fell the angels.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Death is a fearful thing.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Expectation is the root of all heartache.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "False face must hide what the false heart doth know.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Farewell, fair cruelty.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "For I can raise no money by vile means.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "For my part, it was Greek to me.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Sex is emotion in motion.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Give thy thoughts no tongue.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.", "author": "William Shakespeare"}
{"quote": "Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "The best way to hold a man is in your arms.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "The score never interested me, only the game.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "To err is human, but it feels divine.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Too much of a good thing can be taxing.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "When women go wrong, men go right after them.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I've been in more laps than a napkin.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I've been things and seen places.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "It is better to be looked over than overlooked.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "It takes two to get one in trouble.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Look your best - who said love is blind?", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?", "author": "Christopher Marlowe"}
{"quote": "What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?", "author": "Christopher Marlowe"}
{"quote": "What feeds me destroys me.", "author": "Christopher Marlowe"}
{"quote": "While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.", "author": "Christopher Marlowe"}
{"quote": "Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?", "author": "Christopher Marlowe"}
{"quote": "His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I never loved another person the way I loved myself.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I speak two languages, Body and English.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I'd like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.", "author": "Mae West"}
{"quote": "You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.", "author": "John Ciardi"}
{"quote": "Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "One's life has many compartments.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.", "author": "Harold Pinter"}
{"quote": "Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.", "author": "Tom Stoppard"}
{"quote": "Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.", "author": "Tom Stoppard"}
{"quote": "Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.", "author": "Tom Stoppard"}
{"quote": "My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.", "author": "Tom Stoppard"}
{"quote": "My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.", "author": "Tom Stoppard"}
{"quote": "Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.", "author": "Tom Stoppard"}
{"quote": "Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.", "author": "Tom Stoppard"}
{"quote": "Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.", "author": "Tom Stoppard"}
{"quote": "The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.", "author": "Tom Stoppard"}
{"quote": "The days of the digital watch are numbered.", "author": "Tom Stoppard"}
{"quote": "The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.", "author": "Tom Stoppard"}
{"quote": "The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.", "author": "Tom Stoppard"}
{"quote": "We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.", "author": "Tom Stoppard"}
{"quote": "We're actors. We're the opposite of people.", "author": "Tom Stoppard"}
{"quote": "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "The first quality that is needed is audacity.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "The price of greatness is responsibility.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "There is no such thing as a good tax.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Never, never, never give up.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "\"No comment\" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "No crime is so great as daring to excel.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "If you're going through hell, keep going.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I like a man who grins when he fights.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Eating words has never given me indigestion.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I never worry about action, but only inaction.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Great and good are seldom the same man.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "History is written by the victors.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "If you are going through hell, keep going.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "I am easily satisfied with the very best.", "author": "Winston Churchill"}
{"quote": "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "We must use time creatively.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "The time is always right to do what is right.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "We are not makers of history. We are made by history.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "We have guided missiles and misguided men.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Seeing is not always believing.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: \"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?\" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: \"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?\"", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.", "author": "Martin Luther King, Jr."}
{"quote": "Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.", "author": "Tony Blair"}
{"quote": "We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.", "author": "Tony Blair"}
{"quote": "You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.", "author": "Tony Blair"}
{"quote": "Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "Life loves the liver of it.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: \"I'm with you kid. Let's go.\"", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "Nothing will work unless you do.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.", "author": "Maya Angelou"}
{"quote": "We must become the change we want to see in the world.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Where love is, there God is also.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Where there is love there is life.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "You must be the change you wish to see in the world.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "You are the music while the music lasts.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "The good man is the friend of all living things.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "Where thou art, that is home.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.", "author": "e. e. cummings"}
{"quote": "Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.", "author": "e. e. cummings"}
{"quote": "The earth laughs in flowers.", "author": "e. e. cummings"}
{"quote": "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.", "author": "e. e. cummings"}
{"quote": "The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.", "author": "e. e. cummings"}
{"quote": "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.", "author": "e. e. cummings"}
{"quote": "To destroy is always the first step in any creation.", "author": "e. e. cummings"}
{"quote": "To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.", "author": "e. e. cummings"}
{"quote": "Unbeing dead isn't being alive.", "author": "e. e. cummings"}
{"quote": "Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.", "author": "e. e. cummings"}
{"quote": "I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "I celebrate myself, and sing myself.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "I exist as I am, that is enough.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "There is more to life than increasing its speed.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Those who know how to think need no teachers.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "If you done it, it ain't bragging.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "To be social is to be forgiving.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "We loved with a love that was more than love.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "What we live by we die by.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "You can't get too much winter in the winter.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Truth never damages a cause that is just.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The artist in me cries out for design.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The best way out is always through.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The only certain freedom's in departure.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The only way round is through.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "Stupidity is a talent for misconception.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe"}
{"quote": "I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Poetry is what gets lost in translation.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "To have a body is to suffer.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Words are illusions.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Your mind is nirvana.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Your nature is the Buddha.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Not creating delusions is enlightenment.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "The essence of the Way is detachment.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "The mind is always present. You just don't see it.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.", "author": "Bodhidharma"}
{"quote": "The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.", "author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"}
{"quote": "Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.", "author": "Ramakrishna"}
{"quote": "Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.", "author": "Ramakrishna"}
{"quote": "To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.", "author": "Ramakrishna"}
{"quote": "Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.", "author": "Ramakrishna"}
{"quote": "Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.", "author": "Ramakrishna"}
{"quote": "Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.", "author": "Ramakrishna"}
{"quote": "When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.", "author": "Ramakrishna"}
{"quote": "When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.", "author": "Ramakrishna"}
{"quote": "When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.", "author": "Ramakrishna"}
{"quote": "Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.", "author": "Ramakrishna"}
{"quote": "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Freedom lies in being bold.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Hell is a half-filled auditorium.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "Humor is the most engaging cowardice.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "I always entertain great hopes.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "The real war will never get in the books.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "I go to school the youth to learn the future.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "I had a lovers quarrel with the world.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "To have great poets, there must be great audiences.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Nothing endures but personal qualities.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.", "author": "Robert Frost"}
{"quote": "To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "We convince by our presence.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Produce great men, the rest follows.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Simplicity is the glory of expression.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "So the lover must struggle for words.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "When I give, I give myself.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "The beautiful uncut hair of graves.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "The future is no more uncertain than the present.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.", "author": "Walt Whitman"}
{"quote": "The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "There is no method but to be very intelligent.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "This love is silent.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby \"it.\"", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "In my beginning is my end.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "I dwell in possibility.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "I'm nobody, who are you?", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "My friends are my estate.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.", "author": "T. S. Eliot"}
{"quote": "Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "Tell the truth, but tell it slant.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "The brain is wider than the sky.", "author": "Emily Dickinson"}
{"quote": "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Morality is contraband in war.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "My life is my message.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Nobody can hurt me without my permission.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Non-violence is the article of faith.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Imitation is the sincerest flattery.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "In a gentle way, you can shake the world.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Fear has its use but cowardice has none.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Be the change that you want to see in the world.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Each one prays to God according to his own light.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Peace is its own reward.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Poverty is the worst form of violence.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Self-respect knows no considerations.", "author": "Mohandas Gandhi"}
{"quote": "Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.", "author": "Mother Teresa"}
{"quote": "One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.", "author": "Mother Teresa"}
{"quote": "Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.", "author": "Mother Teresa"}
{"quote": "Peace begins with a smile.", "author": "Mother Teresa"}
{"quote": "Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.", "author": "Mother Teresa"}
{"quote": "The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.", "author": "Mother Teresa"}
{"quote": "The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.", "author": "Mother Teresa"}
{"quote": "The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.", "author": "Mother Teresa"}
{"quote": "The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.", "author": "Mother Teresa"}
{"quote": "The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.", "author": "Mother Teresa"}
{"quote": "There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.", "author": "Mother Teresa"}
{"quote": "Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.", "author": "Mother Teresa"}
{"quote": "We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.", "author": "Mother Teresa"}
{"quote": "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.", "author": "Mother Teresa"}
{"quote": "We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.", "author": "Mother Teresa"}
{"quote": "We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.", "author": "Mother Teresa"}
{"quote": "Superman don't need no seat belt.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "The man who has no imagination has no wings.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.", "author": "Mother Teresa"}
{"quote": "There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "What keeps me going is goals.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.", "author": "Muhammad Ali"}
{"quote": "What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Trust, but verify.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "We are never defeated unless we give up on God.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "People do not make wars; governments do.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "The die is cast.", "author": "Julius Caesar"}
{"quote": "What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.", "author": "Julius Caesar"}
{"quote": "Which death is preferably to every other? \"The unexpected\".", "author": "Julius Caesar"}
{"quote": "Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "The battle for women's rights has been largely won.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "This lady is not for turning.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "What Britain needs is an iron lady.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "Reason is the enemy of faith.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "The fewer the words, the better the prayer.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "When schools flourish, all flourishes.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Women are nothing but machines for producing children.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "France has more need of me than I have need of France.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Nothing good ever comes of violence.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "Peace if possible, truth at all costs.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "History is a set of lies agreed upon.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.", "author": "Satchel Paige"}
{"quote": "Pray, and let God worry.", "author": "Martin Luther"}
{"quote": "I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "I have only one counsel for you - be master.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "I made all my generals out of mud.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.", "author": "Satchel Paige"}
{"quote": "The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.", "author": "Satchel Paige"}
{"quote": "When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can't hit it.", "author": "Satchel Paige"}
{"quote": "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.", "author": "Satchel Paige"}
{"quote": "If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.", "author": "Satchel Paige"}
{"quote": "The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "The word impossible is not in my dictionary.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Victory belongs to the most persevering.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "War is the business of barbarians.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "What is history but a fable agreed upon?", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Paris ain't much of a town.", "author": "Babe Ruth"}
{"quote": "Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.", "author": "Babe Ruth"}
{"quote": "The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.", "author": "Babe Ruth"}
{"quote": "Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?", "author": "Babe Ruth"}
{"quote": "Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.", "author": "Babe Ruth"}
{"quote": "You just can't beat the person who never gives up.", "author": "Babe Ruth"}
{"quote": "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Respect the burden.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "The army is the true nobility of our country.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "The French complain of everything, and always.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "The human race is governed by its imagination.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.", "author": "Michael Jordan"}
{"quote": "Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.", "author": "Michael Jordan"}
{"quote": "The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.", "author": "Michael Jordan"}
{"quote": "There is no \"i\" in team but there is in win.", "author": "Michael Jordan"}
{"quote": "To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.", "author": "Michael Jordan"}
{"quote": "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.", "author": "Michael Jordan"}
{"quote": "I just want to conquer people and their souls.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I love to hit people. I love to.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I think I'll take a bath in his blood.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I'll go back and take what the people owe me.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I'm going to gut you like a fish.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I'm just happy I'm not a phony.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "Imagination rules the world.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "In politics stupidity is not a handicap.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "It requires more courage to suffer than to die.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Let the path be open to talent.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Medicines are only fit for old people.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.", "author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"}
{"quote": "I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "It's a funny old world.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.", "author": "Mike Tyson"}
{"quote": "No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.", "author": "Margaret Thatcher"}
{"quote": "Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Man is not free unless government is limited.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "One picture is worth 1,000 denials.", "author": "Ronald Reagan"}
{"quote": "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "We never repent of having eaten too little.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Taste cannot be controlled by law.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "One man with courage is a majority.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Power is not alluring to pure minds.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Never spend your money before you have earned it.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "If God is just, I tremble for my country.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I cannot live without books.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "He who knows best knows how little he knows.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.", "author": "Thomas Jefferson"}
{"quote": "With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "With self-discipline most anything is possible.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "The government is us; we are the government, you and I.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer \"Present\" or \"Not guilty.\"", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The American people abhor a vacuum.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "I am a part of everything that I have read.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "We are not at war against Islam.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We're not going to baby sit a civil war.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "No one is pro-abortion.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "What Washington needs is adult supervision.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Why can't I just eat my waffle?", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "My administration is the only thing between you [CEO's] and the pitchforks.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I just miss - I miss being anonymous.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I said that America's role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I'm a Christian by choice.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.", "author": "Barack Obama"}
{"quote": "When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.", "author": "Niels Bohr"}
{"quote": "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.", "author": "Niels Bohr"}
{"quote": "The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "There are as many opinions as there are experts.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "War is a contagion.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.", "author": "George Washington"}
{"quote": "Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "It is fun to be in the same decade with you.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"}
{"quote": "We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.", "author": "Murray Gell-Mann"}
{"quote": "Well, I don't like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much.", "author": "Murray Gell-Mann"}
{"quote": "What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.", "author": "Murray Gell-Mann"}
{"quote": "When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one.", "author": "Murray Gell-Mann"}
{"quote": "You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.", "author": "Murray Gell-Mann"}
